Web Essentials

Interacts with Visual Studio's Browser Link feature

What is Web Essentials?

'Web Essentials' is a Chrome extension designed to work with Visual Studio's Browser Link feature. This feature ensures smooth and seamless interaction, thereby enhancing user experience and development efficiency in the browser.

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By: Mads Kristensen

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Users: 2,000+

Rating: 2.23 (13)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2017-06-14)

Creation date: 2017-06-14

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 15.02K

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 21002 ▼ 176

Other rankings

#5669 in Developer Tools ▼ 9

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Great tool from Mads
Useful after discontinuation of toolbar from 2015 version

Cons

Causes error on page load
Doesn't work
Doesn't support VS2019
Only works half the time
Problems with inspect mode

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Issues with VS 2017
Error on page load

Recent reviews

When this extension enabled, it causes the following error on page load: Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received. Related Github issue: https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentialsChrome/issues/4

Burak T, 2021-10-23

Not Working

Taufique Tabraiz, 2019-07-24

Doesn't support VS2019 yet?

Olx Olx, 2019-04-12

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Safety

Risk impact

Web Essentials may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.